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The only thing I don't like about Waste Not is that all actions that don't take away durability still use up a turn. For synths with 70 or 80 durability (e.g. anything higher level that isn't a base ingredient) I prefer to use Master's Mend II as soon as it's available. 60 durability restored for 160 CP - and any additional steps I take beyond it that don't take away durability don't matter.

Specifically, if I'm down to 20 durability, and I have 2 turns left on Waste Not, but I get a good status and I want to restore 20 CP from Tricks of the Trade rather than do another quality boost, I'll "lose a turn" with Waste Not.

Whereas if I am down to 20 durability and saved up the CP to pop MM2, I can TotT and get back my 20 CP without losing any turns... because MM2 isn't time based, it's instant.

So while I agree that Waste Not is superior to MM1, I think the choice between Waste Not and MM2 is more of a personal preference.

I also prefer Standard Synthesis as my big completion boost versus Rapid Synthesis, because with Steady Hand II it's 100% whereas Rapid Synth can still fail (I think it's only 80% with SH2.) Yeah it costs 15 CP, but that's a small cost for a guanteed outcome.

I don't understand any of this advanced crafting conversation. I just press buttons and hope it works at this point.

Obviously I'm missing something and have way too low a CP total. If I saved 160CP for an upcoming a mend, I couldn't use enough other CP-consuming steps to make it necessary.

I love the names they chose for the levequests. It's like they thought about each and every one of them to give it either some humor or a pop culture reference or some wit.

Also, does anybody know of a website that has every recipe currently in the game? I plan on levelling my remaining crafts to 15 by just crafting my crafting log, and I want to stock up on all of the materials before I start so I can just plow through it. I could just check the crafting log, but it's kind of annoying to click through it.

Edited, Jan 20th 2014 5:29pm by Bigdaddyjug

No, I'm looking to go through my crafting log and I'm trying to stock all of the mats for an entire tier of the log at once so I don't have to keep running to the guild supplier.

That makes sense, then. I'm now at LTW 50 without levelling any other DoH class, so I don't have Hasty Touch. The other Touches gobble up CP ruthlessly; I aim for HQ as much as possible too.

I must say that even though I have all crafts at 50, I still use the same abilities over and over again and always get HQ. And I mean I get HQ on things before I got them all to 50. I will list my rotation but other things come into play. I only used HQ tools, and sometimes always use trick of the trade if I need CP:

Comfort zone
inner quiet
steady hand 2
hasty touch (to 30 durability)
careful synthesis 2
Master mend 2
steady hand 2
hasty touch till steady hands end
great strides
steady hand 2
(maybe innovation)
Byregot's Blessing
careful synthesis X 2

Things at 50 for this would be WVR/CRP/ALC and CUL to 37
For none star recipes this will always HQ for me.

From about lvl 20-25 on I have been able to HQ every leve turn in for every other DoH

Edited, Jan 21st 2014 9:57am by nonameoflevi

Edited, Jan 21st 2014 10:00am by nonameoflevi

O yeah one other thing Id like to add. I never use HQ materials for none star while doing leve turn ins and can HQ them.

I do basically just that, but without ALC and GSM to 50. Since I don't have ALC leveled, I use NQ Bouillabaisse (don't remember my pre-food CP based on my gear, but I wind up with enough CP for that rotation). For stuff that's only 1 star or lower, I don't bother with the food and just do the SH2 + Hasty Touch + Tricks of the Trade approach. I occasionally get a raw deal from the RNG, but it doesn't happen all that often and one star and lower stuff uses inexpensive mats that it's not a big deal to get an NQ once in a great while.